5 Delay Tricks You Should Know! || Strymon Timeline

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] what's going on everyone I'm Rachel welcome back to another video today I'm gonna be talking about probably my favorite effect ever and that is delay so I'm gonna share with you five different tips and tricks to get the most out of your delay pedal I'm gonna show you some different ways to beef up rhythm parts to beef up lead parts using a delay pedal I'm also gonna show you how to get a chorus effect with no chorus pedal and I'm gonna show you some really crazy out there sounds that I like to use sometimes when the situation calls for it so without further ado let's jump in and get started alright so tip number one is to use dotted eighth delays we're all familiar with dotted eighth everyone knows the typical you know [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah that YouTube kind of thing that everybody knows and loves but what I'm gonna show you is how to use a dotted eighth delay to spice up your rhythm play what I like to do is when I'm playing rhythm guitar on a song either like under a verse or on a chorus or something and I want to add weight to my guitar sound I will turn on a dotted eighth delay so for reference here is my dry signal alright pretty standard but when I turn this on listen to how it almost sounds like a double tracked guitar and a great way to add even more weight to this is if your delay has a modulation control bring that modulation up so that the pitch of the delay repeats is moving back and forth slightly that difference in pitch as it goes out of tune sharp and flat by a couple of cents is really gonna add a lot of width to your sounds so here it is with the modulation so you can really hear that wobble that's happening now listen to the rhythm part another cool way to use the dot at 8:00 on rhythm parts is if you're playing a more kind of upbeat driving section like a apart like that is perfect for adding a dotted eighth so let's add a little dirt here and turn our delay back on I'm actually going to turn the mix down a little bit on this and the repeats down as well as that modulation depth and now we have [Music] [Applause] alright so the next tip is gonna help your solos stand out a little more what I like to do is take a standard eighth note delay bring the mix and repeats down to where it's not really audible but it is they're kind of layered under your solo tone and this adds an extra element that's really really great especially on recordings on records and stuff to kind of help blend your sound in with the rest of the mix this is a trick that I've used for years and if you listen to a lot of like what John Mayer does both live and in the studio and you listen to a lot of those guitar lead lines and solos there's a really subtle delay blended under a lot of that stuff so I've got a patch pulled up here and you can hear that the mix and the repeats are kind of high they're actually it this delay is to present for what I want so I'm gonna bring the mix down quite a bit and I'm gonna bring the repeats down and this is just a standard sort of tape delay sound on the timeline and I like the tape delay because as the repeats happen that signal sort of degrades over time so you're getting less high end coming out and less low end it sort of basically kind of trails off like that and that helps it blend into the mix a little better so now we have this and I'm really only looking for two or three repeats here I don't want more than that because when you're soloing especially if you're playing something fast you don't want those repeats to start stepping on your lead lines so again this is real subtle and I'm going to turn on the T Drive here so here is the dry signal not a bad sound but when I turn this on so again it's really subtle but it's adding sort of a bed underneath my lead lines kind of almost like a reverb in a way if you add a medium length reverb under your tone it's sort of filling in the space in between the notes which in a lot of situations I really like all right so this next tip is something that I've been doing a lot more of recently than I traditionally have done and that is to use a reverse delay to add a really kind of cool rhythmic element to more simple parts so this is most useful I found on really simple kind of chord progressions or really simple lead lines to kind of add a unique twist to something that might be kind of boring when it's done in a tasteful way it's incredible so here's my dry signal this is great if you're playing a simple part like this you know just playing six up the neck following a chord progression now listen what I have here [Music] you that's a really cool sound and when you blend that with kind of a washy reverb sound it gets even cooler [Music] I really really love that sound I also really like to use it on chord progressions [Music] [Applause] [Music] and same thing when you throw that reverb on you [Music] it's a really unique kind of cool sound that you can use to add a lot of character to a pretty simple part alright so now i'm gonna show you how to dial in a chorus sound with no chorus pedal so if you have a modulation control on your delay you can do this and it's really simple on the timeline I can do it with a bunch of different delays but I like the digital delay for this and here's my just normal delay sound that I have pulled up here pretty standard digital delay what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the time control and I'm gonna max it out I'm gonna take it all the way up as high as it'll go and I'm also going to bring the repeats down as low as they will go now we've essentially turned it into a chorus pedal where the main three controls I want to worry about are my modulation depth my modulation speed in my mix control so I'm gonna leave the mix where it's at I'm gonna bring that mod depth all the way up and I'm going to leave the speed control at about 11 and now we have [Music] you [Music] now you can hear you still are getting a little bit of like a really quick almost slat back but it is pretty subtle if you don't want to buy a chorus pedal [Music] need those 80s chorus II tones [Music] you can pull it off with your delay pedal it's really cool when you throw another washy reverb on it then you get the the reverb kind of smooths out that initial kind of slap back effect [Music] no chorus pedal needed alright and one final bonus trick this is just a crazy thing that I like to do sometimes it's a total character effect I like to call it it's not useful in every situation but when it's the right situation it's really cool so what I'm gonna do is make this delay pedal freak out and modulate beyond all recognition so I like using the tape delay for this and what we're gonna do is bring our time setting up to just a random time and then we're gonna bring our mix up quite a bit and our repeats up way way up to about three o'clock on the timeline you can do this with almost any delay pedal and what I'm gonna do is just play a single note any note push those for pizza a little bit there's a tipping point that happens where it'll just start to self oscillate so I can literally put the guitar down and use the pedal as its own instrument if you will so bring the mix back up and you can hear it starting to oscillate I'm going to use the time control to send this thing into outer space [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] man I love that if you want your really crazy check this out [Music] [Applause] [Music] so there you go that's a bunch of different stuff you can do with delay pedals hope you enjoyed today's video if you did don't forget to leave a like and comment down below if you haven't done so already please subscribe and if you want to support the channel you can find a link in the description to my patreon page you can start at just two bucks a month and get access to a bunch of cool stuff I have over there also find me on instagram at rhett Shull anyways that's all for now thanks for watching and remember there is no plan B

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Length: 14min 46sec (886 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 12 2018